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VC1150 Arthur Percy Sullivan
Name Arthur Percy Sullivan No.
VC Issue No. 1150 Awards VC
Regiment Royal Fusiliers, 45th Battalion attached to the North Russia Relief Force
Later
Now Royal Regiment of Fusiliers
Rank VC Won Corporal
Rank End Of Career Corporal
Place Of Birth Crystal Brook, Australia
Place Of Death Westminster Hospital, London, England
Buried/Location Ashes North Suburbs Crematorium, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Cremated Golders Green Crematorium, Hoop Lane, London, England
Date Buried/Cremated 13 April 1937
Headstone Plaque Plot/Grave no. Tree 267A, Garden of Remembrance
Gazetted 29 September 1919
VC Presented 12 July 1920 by the Prince of Wales (later King Edward VIII) at Government House, Adelaide, Australia
Memorials
P Memorial Plaque, SA Garden of Remembrance, Adelaide, SA, Australia
P Memorial Plaque on railings of Birdcage Walk, Wellington Barracks, London
P Display at Australian War Memorial, Canberra, ACT, Australia
Named on VC Memorial, War Memorial, North Terrace, Adelaide, SA, Australia
P Victoria Cross Commemorative Plaque, Australian War Memorial, Canberra, ACT, Australia
P Named on Victoria Cross Memorial, Queen Victoria Building, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Sullivan Crescent, Canberra, ACT, Australia
By The Way…
Over in London for the Kings Coronation, returning to his quarters at Wellington Barracks, he was signing autographs in Birdcage Walk when he slipped and knocked his head on the pavement and was then run over by a cyclist, he died from his injuries.
VC Held By
Australian War Memorial, Hall of Valour, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia
BORN 27 November 1896
DIED 9 April 1937 AGE 40
VC Won 10 August 1919 AGE 22
Place VC Won Shelka River, Russia
War/Campaign North Russia Relief Force
